Amy Wilentz

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Amy Wilentz, a 2020 Guggenheim fellow who teaches in the literary journalism program at the University of California, Irvine, is The New Yorker’s former Jerusalem correspondent and the author of Martyrs’ Crossing, a novel about the Oslo peace process in the mid-1990s, among other books.

In Cold Type In Cold Type

The current Salmagundi (Summer-Fall 2002) has a section on what it calls "Femicons" (the category includes articles on Emma Goldman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Willa Cath...

Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

In Cold Type In Cold Type

Until and unless a nonhuman animal becomes a legal person, she will remain invisible to civil law." This quote from the legal profile in Bark magazine's fall issue in many ways...

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

In Cold Type In Cold Type

In this season's Granta, Fintan O'Toole, an Irish writer, speculates that the enduring appeal of the British monarch is that she makes the British crowd feel good about itself,...

Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. By Anthony Trollope. Oxford. 1,024 pp. $11.95.

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

In Cold Type In Cold Type

As summer winds down, retreats and vacations come to an end (no more toasted marshmallows) and regular life begins again, with everyday chores like buying new shoes for childre...

Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

In Cold Type In Cold Type

It seems a long time ago that I stocked my pantry (pantry is a concept in Manhattan, not a reality) with two weeks' worth of emergency food (including powdered milk, an oddly c...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

In Cold Type In Cold Type

Southern Exposure, which somehow looks--even in its third decade, in the twenty-first century--as if very advanced high school students had just stapled it together and put it on ...

Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

In Cold Type In Cold Type

haven't done much mental spring cleaning because so much of the last month has been taken up with brooding and spewing about the crisis in the Middle East; no doubt the coming mon...

May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

In Cold Type In Cold Type

When I was a teenager on my first trip to Paris, I remember looking out at the Parisians from the window of a taxi as we proceeded along some splendid boulevard and thinking, B...

Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

In Cold Type In Cold Type

The new Daedalus is out. I have to admit to having not read Daedalus with much fervor in the past, say, fifteen years (well, if ever, to be honest), but I was curious about the ve...

Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

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